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| Suge Knight to face August 1 trial on hit-and-run murder charge - report | |  Rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight will stand trial on August 1 for murder charges stemming from a fatal hit-and-run in Los Angeles, a judge ordered on Friday, according to a local media report. Knight told the judge he would be ready for the start of the trial, California wire agency City News Service (CNS) reported. Knight's attorney, Thaddeus J. Culpepper, told reporters outside the court that Knight intended to "assemble a trial team a la O.J. Simpson," referring to the former football star who was acquitted of murder following a high-profile trial, CNS reported.
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| Iran starts election count to set post-sanctions power balance | |  By Samia Nakhoul TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran started counting tens of millions of votes on Saturday after hotly contested elections that could see reformists speed up Tehran's opening to the world or long-dominant hardliners reassert the Islamic Republic's traditional anti-Westernism. The twinned elections for parliament and a leadership body called the Assembly of Experts are seen by some analysts as a potential turning point that could shape the future for the next generation, in a country where nearly 60 percent of the 80 million population is under 30. The Interior Ministry published a statement saying no result would be valid before it was officially announced by the ministry.
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| Europe's Infantino chosen to lead FIFA into new era | | | By Mike Collett ZURICH (Reuters) - Gianni Infantino vowed on Friday to lead FIFA out of years of corruption and scandal after the former UEFA general secretary was elected to succeed his Swiss compatriot Sepp Blatter as president of football's world governing body. "We will restore the image of FIFA and the respect of FIFA, and everyone in the world will be proud of us," the 45-year-old law graduate, who for the last seven years has been the leading administrator for Europe's governing body, told an extraordinary FIFA Congress in Zurich. "I feel a lot of emotion and have not realised yet what has happened today." After a first round of voting in which he narrowly beat Asian Football Confederation President Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain, Infantino appeared to gather up almost all the votes that had been cast for the two trailing candidates, Prince Ali and Jerome Champagne. |
| Infantino promises 'to bring FIFA back to football' | | | Selected quotes from Swiss Gianni Infantino's first news conference after the former UEFA general secretary was elected president of scandal-hit world soccer's governing body FIFA on Friday: "I will work tirelessly to bring football back to FIFA and FIFA back to football, this is what we have to do. "I would like to see a big development of football all over the world. "I want to see football growing all over the world and people looking at FIFA as the organisation that helps each country in the world to develop football. |
| Five dead in Washington state murder-suicide | |  By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) - A man fatally shot four people believed to be members of his own family then kept police at bay for several hours on Friday before killing himself, but a 12-year-old girl thought to be the gunman's daughter escaped the carnage, authorities said. Although details of the slayings inside a rural home near the community of Belfair, about 25 miles (40 km) west of Seattle, remained under investigation, a Mason County Sheriff's official said the violence appeared to have stemmed from a "family-domestic situation." "As far as I know, this is one family, the shooter was the father and the victims were his family," Chief Deputy Russell Osterhout told Reuters. A neighbor, Jack Pigott, 79, who lives across the road from the crime scene, told Reuters by telephone he heard several bursts of gunfire coming from the wooded property Thursday night, and assumed it was target shooting.
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| China state TV airs confession by lawyer who helped Christian groups | | | A well-known Chinese rights lawyer has appeared on state television confessing to crimes after a months-long disappearance, the latest case in China's widening crackdown on dissent. Zhang Kai had represented a group of Christians who were detained for suspected financial crimes last year after they resisted the demolition of crosses. Heavily Christian Wenzhou, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, was the site of protests in 2014 over a government campaign to demolish crosses. |
| U.N. expects breaches of Syria truce, urges restrained response | |  U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Saturday he expected "hiccups" in a cessation of hostilities that came into force at midnight Damascus time (2200 GMT) on Friday, and urged restraint in curbing any new outbreaks of fighting. "There is a high chance we should expect such hiccups" in the pause in fighting brokered by the United States and Russia, he told reporters in Geneva after briefing the United Nations Security Council in New York via videolink.
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| Kansas mass shooting suspect had been served domestic violence order | |  The man suspected of killing three people at the Kansas lawnmower factory where he worked was served 90 minutes before his shooting spree with a court order to stay away from a woman who said he had abused her, authorities said on Friday. The first police officer to reach the scene, Hesston Police Chief Doug Schroeder, killed Ford in an exchange of gunfire, said police secretary Jeannine Hoheisel. "The man was not going to stop shooting," Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton said on Friday, noting that there were up to 300 people in the Excel Industries factory where the worst of the rampage took place.
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| Angola says proposes U.N. arms embargo on South Sudan | | Friday, February 26, 2016 11:52 PM | |
| | By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Angola said on Friday it has proposed that the United Nations Security Council impose an arms embargo on South Sudan, where more than 10,000 people have been killed in a two year civil war sparked by a political dispute between the country's leaders. The United Nations said last week that South Sudan's warring parties are killing, abducting and displacing civilians and destroying property despite conciliatory rhetoric by President Salva Kiir and his former deputy, Riek Machar. Now what is necessary to do is an arms embargo," said Angola's U.N. Ambassador Ismael Abraao Gaspar Martins. |
| U.N. says force is last resort in case of Syria truce breaches | | Friday, February 26, 2016 11:43 PM | |
| U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Friday the use of force must be proportionate and a last resort if fresh fighting breaks a cessation of hostilities that began at midnight Damascus time. "Let's pray that this works because frankly this is the best opportunity we can imagine the Syrian people has had for the last five years in order to see something better and hopefully something related to peace.
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| Five dead including suspect after Washington state shooting | | Friday, February 26, 2016 11:40 PM | |
| By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) - Five people were dead, including a suspected gunman, following a shooting and standoff with police at a home in Washington state on Friday, but a 12-year-old girl safely escaped, Mason County authorities said. "It's a terrible tragedy." The newspaper quoted Mason County Sheriff Deputy Chief Ryan Spurling as saying that a man called law enforcement on Friday morning and reported that he shot two children, a woman and another person. A short time later, the sheriff tweeted that the 12-year-old girl was "safe after getting away from the shooter, adding that her "relation to the shooter is not confirmed yet." Police surrounded the home near the community of Belfair, about 25 miles (40 km) west of Seattle across Puget Sound, but did not immediately enter the residence because the man was armed with a handgun, Spurling said, according to the Seattle Times.
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